Tycho Brahe — "I have seen a comet that is closer to the Earth than the Moon, and it has no par…"
I have seen a comet that is closer to the Earth than the Moon, and it has no parallax.
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Describing the comet of 1577, challenging Aristotelian cosmology
Date: 1577
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